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Author: Jennifer A. González File Type: pdf This anthology provides an overview of the history and theory of Chicanoa art from the 1960s to the present, emphasizing the debates and vocabularies that have played key roles in its conceptualization. In Chicano and Chicana Artwhich includes many of Chicanoa arts landmark and foundational texts and manifestosartists, curators, and cultural critics trace the development of Chicanoa art from its early role in the Chicano civil rights movement to its mainstream acceptance in American art institutions. Throughout this teaching-oriented volume they address a number of themes, including the politics of border life, public art practices such as posters and murals, and feminist and queer artists figurations of Chicanoa bodies. They also chart the multiple cultural and artistic influencesfrom American graffiti and Mexican pre-Columbian spirituality to pop art and modernismthat have informed Chicanoa arts practice. Contributors. Carlos Almaraz, David Avalos, Judith F. Baca,Raye Bemis, Jo-Anne Berelowitz, Elizabeth Blair, Chaz Bojoroquez, Philip Brookman, Mel Casas, C. Ondine Chavoya, Karen Mary Davalos, Rupert Garcia, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Shifra Goldman, Jennifer A. Gonzalez, Rita Gonzalez, Robb Hernandez, Juan Felipe Herrera, Louis Hock, Nancy L. Kelker, Philip Kennicott, Josh Kun, Asta Kuusinen, Gilberto Magu Lujan, Amelia Malagamba-Ansotegui, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Dylan Miner,Malaquias Montoya, Judithe Hernandez de Neikrug, Chon Noriega, Joseph Palis, Laura Elisa Perez, Peter Plagens, Catherine Ramirez, Matthew Reilly, James Rojas, Terezita Romo, Ralph Rugoff, Lezlie Salkowitz-Montoya, Marcos Sanchez-Tranquilino, Cylena Simonds, Elizabeth Sisco, John Tagg, Roberto Tejada, Ruben Trejo, Gabriela Valdivia, Tomas Ybarra-Frausto, Victor Zamudio-Taylor **Review The editors have assembled leading scholars and historic essays to unpack the generative force of the Chicanao art movement. The essays are organized by themes and historic benchmarks theyconsider everything from cultural reclamation to political action and even invite readers to imagine what a post-movimiento future might look like. A must-have for anyone wishing to learn the history of Chicanao art, particularly at a time when questions of immigration and assimilation continue to fuel political debate. (Ken Gonzales-Day, author of Lynching in the West 18501935) Bringing together a number of essays that are often quoted within Chicano studies with those that are not readily available, this volume gives readers a full sense of Chicano visual studies as a field of study in its own right. A truly impressive collection. (Laura G. Gutierrez, author of Performing Mexicanidad Vendidas y Cabareteras on the Transnational Stage) About the Author Jennifer A. Gonzalez is Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz. C. Ondine Chavoya is Professor of Art at Williams College. Chon Noriega is Professor of Film, Television, and Digital Media at the University of California, Los Angeles. Terezita Romo is Program Officer at The San Francisco Foundation.

Author: Selvaraj Velayutham File Type: pdf Previously, the academic study of Indian cinema has focused primarily on Bollywood, despite the fact that the Tamil film industry, based in southern India, has overtaken Bollywood in terms of annual output. This book critically examines the cultural and cinematic representations in Tamil cinema. The chapters outline the cinemas history and distinctive characteristics, and proceed to consider a number of important themes such as gender and the portrayal of women, religion, class, sexuality, cinematic genre and the politics of identity. Throughout, the book manages to link the analysis to wider social, political and cultural phenomena in Tamil and Indian society. As interest in Indian cinema grows across the globe, Tamil Cinema is an exciting contribution to an under-studied field, facilitating a fresh consideration of the existing body of scholarship on Indian cinema.

Author: Bernhard Swoboda File Type: pdf Fifteen years after its commercial launching, the Internet has become the second most important distribution channel (after high street retailing) and a major source of customer information and empowerment (Urban 2003, 2005 ConstantinidesFountain 2008). A number of recent developments in this field threaten to further weaken the role of traditional retailing in a number of sectors where retailers and intermediaries have always played an important role. Music, entertainment, press, printingpublishing and traditional travel agents are some of the branches that have already felt the negative effects of Internet-enabled disintermediation. The web has made possible the direct contact between producers and consumers, making the physical retailer of information-based products or intangibles redundant. These developments are widely seen as effects of the Internet evolution and have been extensively discussed and debated. However, over the last three years, a new generation of online tools, applications and approaches such as blogs, wikis, online communities and virtual worlds, commonly referred to as Web 2. 0 or Social Media, are increasingly attracting the attention of practitioners and, recently, of academics. As often happens when revolutionary innovations become booming business, research and theoretical underpinning on the Web 2. 0 issue is still very limited and there is not even a generally accepted definition.